PANDORA EXEC STEPS BACK: TOM CONRAD OUT AS CTO

Pandora has been Oakland’s long-term start-up media and app success story, but the number of executives at the helm who’ve been there since the early days is continuing to decline. Joe Kennedy, who was Pandora’s CEO since 2005, announced he would be leaving the company back in March 2013. In September 2013, the company announced it had hired Microsoft vet Brian McAndrewsto lead the team. Now Chief Technology Officer Tom Conrad is also moving on, after 10 years at Pandora. Conrad announced on his blog that he’d told the Pandora team he would be moving to a part-time advisory role, ”as Brian sees fit.” Conrad wrote:

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